CELTIC 188. Songs of the Highlander

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2021

An introduction to Scottish Gaelic song-poetry of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, this course explores poets’ preoccupations and creative impulses in a time of regular conflict and drastic sociopolitical change. Critical issues to be considered include, but are not limited to, the role(s) of the poet in society, tradition and innovation, orality, and intertextuality. All texts are available in English translation.